Now that President Obama is in Russia, I thought it might be time to post about a little publicized 9/11 monument. Tears of Grief ( To Struggle Against World Terrorism ) is an installation by the Russian artist Zurab Tsreteli. One hundred feet high at 175 tons, it was shipped from Russia in six sections and assembled on the peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, N.J. The senior municipal mouth-breathers were involved in the usual contretemps; commies, bad art, et al, but the free of charge price tag won the day.
It's noted that you see this monument before seeing the Statue of Liberty if you're coming into Manhattan by boat. The underlying question, referring to the order of emphasis, is how much liberty will we be ordered to surrender before we are deemed safe by anonymous alphabet soup factotums. When officials of any stripe are allowed to profitably circumvent their own rules ( "we have to protect you from · place current brouhaha here ·" ), they'll concentrate on personal prerogatives, perks, and job security. Sophisticated nattering, such as "that's just how the sausage factory works" is just p-poor intellectualism or bone lazy, your call. As cousin Ed said, "it's time to re-read Animal Farm."
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